Bright Bert

NZ Truth, Issue 1196, 1 November 1928, Page 6

Bright Bert

WHAT if it is raining cats and dogs and there's a hole starting '; jn.

your left shoe; what if you have forgotten your overcoat and the wind is doing its best to transport the South Pole to Dunedin; arid what if you are ten minutes late at. the office? Why worry!—^you've just heard Bert Rawlinson's latest story.

Where he gets .them, nobody seems to know, but it's as sure as the brown on a penny that every time you meet Herbert R., you'll hear something to make you chuckle. It must be that m that fertile brain of his there's a. small plot enclosed off for the cultivation of anecdotes.

"Well known for many years as an' amateur entertainer, Bert is a friendly fellow whose only burden is an overstock of merriment; though he does his best to scatter the seeds of laughter and share his happy lot with all and sundry. • ;

For identification — stick, smile, spectacles and stories. . ' .